Continuous Professional Development

Core Aim – Support our member community through providing the best content, opportunities, training and best practice

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The key priority for 2022/23 - to review the Higher Education aspect of TMI’s CPD including the accreditation schemes and awards with the intention of increasing HE membership, income, and participation..

The Head of CPD supported by the CPD support officer and the CPD Group will:

• Work in collaboration with members to identify their continuing professional needs.

• Review the existing policy, tools and resources available to support the purposeful professional development of members.

• Manage and further promote the Higher Education (HE) course recognition scheme including increasing participation both domestic and overseas, for Foundation, Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses.

• Establish a channel of communication with course leaders to ensure their integration into wider TMI activity, as well as to identify and develop benefits of course membership.

• Assess the potential to widen accreditation to include short courses run as CPD programmes.

• Review and relaunch the David Hughes Memorial Award and the Simon Curtis Postgraduate Prize for students on recognised courses to showcase their achievements and commitment to TMI and destination management.

• Review and refresh the website content for CPD

• Review opportunities for closer collaboration and communication between the different kinds of members of the TMI e.g. students, professionals, universities with a view to strengthening networking opportunities and shared expertise across the TMI community.